Strategies to Build Positive Relationships for Sam include:
1. Social story on Sam talking about peer’s interest to help her make and maintain friendships
2. Talking circle on each students interest allows for Sam and the whole class a starting point to build friendships.
3. Working in pair to solve money problems allowing Sam and her peers to build relationships.
Rationale: These strategies were chosen because these will help and allow Sam to build and maintain friendships with her peers. By having a social story to help support Sam allows her to help create an understanding of the social skill of communicating and sharing the interest of her peers. The talking circle will also allow for a development of relationships with peers as
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3. Providing her with a clutter free workspace allowing her to be free from distractions.
Rationale: These strategies are most relevant because this will help to create an effective learning environment that support Sam in her learning. Having a clutter free desk with only the essentials to need for the task will help Sam have less distractions and allow for her to feel she can try her best to complete her work. By having only the essentials on her desk like a printed list of the word bank the class created with animal adjectives will help Sam to have some help when trying to implement a new skill of descriptive writing. As Sam is developing a new skill in learning to write descriptive allowing her extra time to complete her work will allow for her to have that extra time that is needed for her to actually create an understand of what is descriptive writing and how she can apply it in her writing. It is important to create an environment that helps the child learn about new skills and experiences as this can create order and a safe and comfortable place for the child to at least try and experience different and new concepts (Fox,
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Having the staying on topic for 4 turns as well as the Social story will provide Sam with a structure to practices these new skills this is important has having a routine or structure can make Sam feel safe in approaching these new skills and more inclined to use them. By also having a buddy system for the first 10 minutes of lunch and recess can help create a routine for Sam and allow for her to feel comfortable in practicing her conversation skills and allow for her to make and maintain friendships (Fox,